Prepositioning

Language Log 2015-07-01

Summary:

Linguist reads the paper: First sentence in Friedman's column begins "Let’s see, America is prepositioning battle tanks …" and before I got to the battle tanks I was surprised and wondering how 'preposition' could be used as a verb and what it could mean. (I'm of course seeing the word that starts with 'prep', had […]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=19717

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Tags:

ambiguity words words words morphology

Authors:

Barbara Partee

Date tagged:

07/01/2015, 04:15

Date published:

06/25/2015, 07:38